Article: LAWN CARE CAN BE CHEMICAL-FREE

The American Lawn is a subsidiary of the American Dream. Suburbanites and the few urbanites who can afford a patch of green are often obsessed with attaining a plush and perfect lawn, a sort of living Astroturf. The trouble is that they rarely take time to weed and water it deep enough, mow it high enough, loaf on it or get to know its clumps and its thatch, its sun and its shade so well that it thrives. Sometimes lawn owners don't even know what kind of grasses are in their lawn, because they've been persuaded that all they need to know is how to spread weed killer.

The latest concept in lawn care is "lawn gardening." The idea is to get you to think of the weeds, bugs and diseases in ...

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